Your boy had his first fantasy football draft of the season tonight, and it went just as expected. I thought about the draft all day and an hour before the draft began, I got absorbed into watching old school WWE matches on YouTube...

As Miami Heat star LeBron James sank clutch three-pointer after clutch three-pointer in Wednesday's Game 5 against the Boston Celtics , it relieved 10 months of feeling the weight of the world on his shoulders...

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We all know the playoffs aren't always decided by who the best overall team is. Match-ups play a huge part in which teams with high expectations go home earlier than anticipated, and which teams make a Cinderella run deep into the postseason...

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That's right. On Friday, November 5th, we're already going there. We have a good grasp on each team by now. A popular theory is if you look at the NHL standings on Thanksgiving Day, they don't change much between then and the end of the season...

Going into the 2010-11 NBA season, the consensus was there were three elite teams in the Eastern Conference. The Orlando Magic , Miami Heat , and the Boston Celtics . Then, for the most part, there was everybody else...

Many people didn't think the San Francisco Giants would win this World Series they just stole from the heart of Texas. Hell, most people didn't even think they'd get there. But, as you know well by now, they did it...

Doesn't it look like the best job ever? To be immersed in a world where you're surrounded by professional athletes and mascots, and your biggest worry is who to pick in your ESPN office suicide pool is the epitome of the American dream...

We're seeing some diversity in the NHL goal scoring department. At least in comparison to what we saw last year. As of right now only one of the current top five goal scorers, Steven Stamkos, was in the top 20 in goals last year...

If you haven't heard the Earth-shattering news yet, Paul the octopus, who became famous over the past summer for correctly picking the winner of World Cup soccer matches, died in his tank early Tuesday morning...

While hitting has been a heavy topic of the day— my article on Brandon Meriweather's Sunday hit on Todd Heap in the NFL was part of it—why not continue the trend? This slideshow will feature the hardest hitters on all 30 NHL teams...

Texas Rangers pitcher, Cliff Lee had one of the 2010 MLB postseason's best performances last night at Yankee Stadium. He struck out 13 New York Yankees hitters, while only allowing two hits and zero runs in eight innings...

Never too early to rank the teams, right? Right. Not even just one week into the season. Come on, real hockey fans always want to know where their team stands, whether it's the first week of October or the last week of the regular season in mid-April..

As you've seen, we've analyzed the pitching matchups and how the Phillies and Giants compare in the infield . This slideshow will examine the only part of the teams we haven't focused on yet: the outfield...

We just did a piece on the pitching matchups for the NLCS, that you should really read if you haven't already. This time, we're breaking down the infields of the finalists for the National League pennant...

They say, rightfully so, that pitching decides the postseason. In the NLCS this year, pitching will almost certainly have a direct impact on who goes to the World Series, and who goes home until spring training in 2011...